Out of interest ( and without divulging too much personal info if you don’t want too) would you say you come out on top over all and the end of each month ?

On the advice of s friend here I looked at the whole Forex thing, read it, realised I hadn’t a bloody clue what was going on and promptly decided to leave well enough alone as I knew I’d be a disaster at it. My friend lamblasted me and showed me his ( smallish) profit/s during his first few days trading BUT by the end of the month he’d lost quite a bit and said “sod that” and made some excuses about the markets being too volatile just now and how it couldn’t possibly have been his fault he made losses.

So, is it the licence to print money that he claimed or more like the road to ruin if aren’t very switched on about that sort of thing in your opinion perhaps ?